Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
My idea of an agreeable person.. Is a person who agrees with me.
Little things affect little minds.
Great countries are those that produce great people.
Travel teaches toleration.
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
Duty cannot exist without faith.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are independent.
Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
I say that justice is truth in action.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
It is knowledge that influences and equalises the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and enjoyments which are universal.
I repeat that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.
Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.
I will sit down now, but the time will come when you will hear me.
Where knowledge ends, religion begins.
There is no education like adversity.
He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea - and that was wrong.
You know who critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
A precedent embalms a principle.
A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
